12/23/2025
This was a unique one. There were multiple ahops that declined work on this vehicle. We had a customer with a 12 nissan maxima come with an intermittent brake light and battery light illumination. The diagnosis was a simple alternator. Although it is a very labor intensive job on these cars, simple became a nightmare very quickly. After replacing alternator it was found to not charge at all! This was with a NISSAN remanufactured part . This led to deeper diagnosis and further digging to find that the alternator supplied by the customer “NEW”IN BOX was defective. With out proper diagnostic I’m positive that examples like this find themselves bouncing from shop to shop. We were able to get a new replacement alternator in and installed and repair a few other issues with this car to get him on the road again. Lesson learned:
1: not all parts are good out of the box.
2:Be careful where you get your parts from.
